refrain
repeated lines in music or poetry
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Summary
refrain is a musical-structural concept[1]. refrain draws 2,165 Wikipedia views per month (musical structural concept category, ranking #4 of 16).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: literature term[3]
- Genre: jazz[4]
- Subclass of: passage[5]
- Part of: song[6], poetry[7], verse-chorus form[8]
- Commons category: Chorus (song structure)[9]
- Said to be the same as: hook[10]
- Opposite of: song verse[11]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[13], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[15]
- Has characteristic: repetition[16]
- Different from: ritornello[17], stornello[18]
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Influence
Things named for refrain include verse-chorus form[19], a musical form[20].
Why It Matters
refrain has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] refrain is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]
Entities named for refrain include verse-chorus form[19], a musical form[20].